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Low, usually prostrate, annual to perennial herbs with sympodial shoots and woolly pubescence; leaves alternate, petiolate, toothed, lobed or pinnatifid; flowers solitary, seemingly axillary, hermaphroditic, actinomorphic except for gynoecium; receptacle accrescent, with or without spinose appendages; sepals 5, valvate, usually persistent and more or less accrescent, sometimes spinescent; petals 5, free, imbricate, usually contorted; stamens 10, the inner 5 shorter than the outer ones, filaments glabrous or rarely pubescent, sometimes persistent, with broadened bases and tapering tip; anthers dorsifixed, versatile, tetrasporangiate, longitudinally dehiscent; carpels usually 10, more or less sunken in the receptacle; styluli free, usually persistent and hardening, stigmas capitate, gynoecium becoming asymmetrical by unequal development; functional ovules solitary in locules, apical-axile, anatropous; fruit usually indehiscent; seeds exalbuminous, germinating within the fruit.
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Bayer, C. (2003). Neuradaceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Bayer, C. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_32
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